Fonsie Mealy's THE LIBRARY HOWTH CASTLE September 22nd & 23rd, 2021

89 fonsiemealy.ie Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 663 662 659 660. Bosio (Antonio) Roma Sotteranea, Opera Postuma. Large thick folio Rome (Guglielmo Facciotti) 1632. lg. engd. add. title, red and bl. title, with bottom rt. hand corner torn with loss (18), 656 (14)pp (lacking pps 63/64, pps 155/156 and possibly 187 / 188 ) with 187 hf. page engd. illustrations, 6 full page engd. plans or maps (include. 1 lg. fold., dam.), text illus thro.-out; Bound with, Albizio (Antonio) Principum Christianorum Stemata, lg. folio Strasburg (Christ. Heyden) 1627. Hf. title, lg. engd. full title, (4)ff include. engd. portrait, XLVIII, and include. 25 dbl. page, & 24 single page engraved genealogical tables, the entire text and plates have been upsized at edges to form the same size as the previous volume, text browned in parts, fore-edge frayed somewhat at end of text, a few damp stains, cont. full vellum. B.P. An important collection. (1) €1000‑€1500 657. With Fine Engraved Illustrations Numismata Virorum Illustrium ex Barbadica Gente - Ad Numismata Gentis Barbadical Additamentum, One Part only, lg. atlas folio n.d. Hf. title only, 10 lg. engd. hf. page vignette illus., & 4 engd. initials, 16pp. L.P., orig. marble boards. B.P., w.a.f. (1) €200‑€300 658. El Escorial: Representacion del Monasterio de S. Lorenzo el Real del Escorial, Fabrica del Prudentismo Rey. Philippo II, Coronada Con la Magestuofa Obra de la Campilla Insigne del Pantheon. Par El Rey Catholicis Philippo IV El Grande. Dedicada al Invicto Martir Esq. S. Lorenzo. Lg. Atlas folio. title lg. oval m/ss title within a fine engraved border, a lg. full page Portrait of Philip II, 8 lg. double page & 6 full page engd. views, plans & designs, mostly signed P.P or P. Perret, Antwerp, Sculp. Regis fe. 1598, together with 4 lg. cont. engravings by Titian & others, one dated 1569. As a collection, a contemporary compilation, in an early full vellum binding, w.a.f. (1) €1000‑€1500 659. Album of Antique Engraved Portraits. A large Atlas folio Album containing over 125 engd. & litho portraits, some by G. Flinck, J. de Frey, Jas. Mc Ardell etc., many of a theatrical nature, various sizes, various large hd. cold. caricatures by S.W. Fores, Ackermann etc., & approx. 65 other items, prints etc., many after the antique, a very good collection. As an Album, w.a.f. (1) €300‑€400 661. Stanhope (John Spencer) Plates of Plataea, Olympia, and the Ruins of the City of Elis, Lg. Atlas folio Lond. n.d. c. 1817, 19 engd. plts. & maps (16 full page & 3 dble page) after Allaston. Cont. mor. backed cloth boards. V. good clean copy. (1) €250‑€350 662. Allaston (Thos.)Arch. Picturesque views of the Antiquities of Pola in Istria, lg. Atlas folio Lond. (John Murray) 1819. First Edn., L.P. copy, hf. title, 4 lg. vignettes in text & 10 full page plts., orig. hf. mor. over marble boards, with gilt décor. mor. label on front cover. B.P.’s of Charles Fielding and Thos. Gaisford. A v. good copy. (1) €300‑€400 663. [Dore (Gustave)] Coleridge (Sam. Taylor) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lg. atlas folio Lond. 1876. Illus. thro-out by Gustave Doré, hf. title, frontis & full page plts., orig. cloth, gilt , rebacked. Good. (1) €120‑€180 658